Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

27 reviews

meghan1111's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Classism, Death, Grief, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death

rapunzelholly's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Gun violence, and War

rmdange's review

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

I’ve contemplated reading this book ever since my mother told me about a Pakistani girl my age being shot in the head by the Taliban and, somehow, eking her way to a miraculous recovery. Through I Am Malala, the author reclaims her own story, providing a clarity and comprehensiveness untouched by the frantic news reports of the time. Part I is rather slow and tedious, as she painstakingly retraces her familial ancestry and the political history of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. Though this provides necessary context (and is important and impressive as a political chronicle), her habit of mentioning so many one-off players, as if out of compulsion to include their names and brief sketches of their stories, detracts from the focus and flow of her narrative. Once the Taliban come into the picture, in Part II, the book’s pace certainly picks up, becoming steadily more riveting throughout. Overall, I Am Malala is an impactful literary debut telling a very necessary story. The author’s age (15 years) is strikingly evident in the writing, and the plentiful passages about God’s greatness are a little much for me (one would have sufficed). I have to wonder how she would have written it differently – if at all – twelve years later.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Islamophobia, and War

rhiannon814r's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Grief, Death, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Incest

urfriendash's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

malala yousafzai started speaking out for girl's education when she was a young girl; in pakistan, early 2000's, the taliban started terrorizing her town and harming people who spoke against their beliefs. after malala started getting attention for advocating for girl's rights, the taliban attempted to take her life. after this event, malala had even more eyes on her while she stood up for girls rights.

i think this novel was phenomenal! it informs you on this very important issue of girls education, terrorism, and the taliban, while also being very intriguing and fast paced. if informational novels usually bore you, this one definitely wont!

one of my favorite parts about this book is how it tells you all about malalas life during the talibans terrorist attacks, but while it talks about that devastating topic, it cast a light on the good parts of her life during these struggles, like playing games with her friends after school, or watching ugly betty. another example is when malala reflects on her thoughts about her brush with death; while it is a terrible thing to happen, she writes that shes grateful to be alive and that the situation put so many eyes on her to advocate for the rights of women!

i would highly recommend this to anyone!! the topics malala discuss are very salient and i think everyone should give this book a chance.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, Emotional abuse, and Hate crime

shlymiller's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

eve81's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, and Religious bigotry

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Animal cruelty, Classism, Medical content, Murder, Sexism, Animal death, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Grief and Gore

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.25

This book was fascinating, and I am in awe of Malala's spirit, faith, and drive. My major issue with it, however, is that I can see - very clearly - that Christina Lamb collaborated on this. It reads, at many times, like a history of Pakistan (specifically a history of Pakistani relations with the West). It feels as though information about Malala, her family, and her experience are tossed in here and there, rather than the other way around. I realize that some of that is so Western readers have context, but I think it went into a distracting amount of detail. I would love to read something Malala has written on her own, without a hovering need to make Westerners understand every bit of it via overexplanation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Misogyny, Violence, War, Death, Gun violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Torture and Animal death

-Colorism (many asides about skin lightening) -Suicide in the context of suicide bombing -Political assassinations (both attempted and succeeded) -Terrorism

agatha_hopkins's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexism, and War